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2. Kind of flowers available determines the taste.

Castes in Honeybee
 The honeybees build a nest which is called a beehive. A hive contains almost

10,000 to 60,000 bees. The bees live together in a colony and divide themselves
into 3 different castes.

1. Queen bee: the fertile, functional female of all is the queen bee. It is the

supreme bee in the colony.
2. Drone bees: they are the smaller male bees of the colony. Their main task is to

maintain the hive.
3. Worker bees: they are the smallest in size but the most active members of the

hive. They perform different functions such as collecting pollens and nectar,
constructing the comb, cleaning the cells of the hive.